Checking Out Me History

Question 1

Which phrases show Agard feels he was deliberately kept from knowing about his past?

Accepted Answer

&#x27;Dem tell me wha dem want to tell me&#x27;, &#x27;Dem never tell me about...&#x27;, &#x27;Bandage up me eye&#x27;, &#x27;Blind me to me own identity&#x27;

Question 2

What technique has Agard used throughout the poem?

Accepted Answer

Use of historical figures, Contrasts, Use of fictional characters, Dialect

Question 3

What words describe Toussaint?

Accepted Answer

Beacon, Slave, Fighter

Question 4

How does Agard separate the history he wanted to learn and that which he did learn?

Accepted Answer

Use of rhyming couplets to trivialise what he did learn., Use of short sentences vs long sentences, Use of italics

Question 5

Which poems could you link with &#x27;Checking Out Me History&#x27;?

Accepted Answer

&#x27;Ozymandias&#x27;, &#x27;London&#x27;, &#x27;Kamikaze&#x27;, &#x27;Emigree&#x27;

Question 6

Agard was glad to hear about Florence Nightingale and not Mary Seacole.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 7

Which quotations show that Agard was kept in the dark about people who he sees as bringing light into the world.

Accepted Answer

&#x27;Mary Seacole...a healing star among the wounded&#x27;, &#x27;A yellow sunrise to the dying&#x27;, &#x27;Toussant de beacon of de Haitian Revolution&#x27;, &#x27;Nanny see-far woman&#x27;

Question 8

Which fictional characters did he learn about?

Accepted Answer

Ole King Cole, Robin Hood, Dick Wittington

Question 9

He learnt about Nelson, Waterloo and Shaka de great Zulu.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 10

How did Agard feel about Toussaint, Nanny de maroon and Mary Seacole?

Accepted Answer

Respected them, Was grateful to them, Admired them

Checking Out Me History

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